Cease me in the event you’ve heard this earlier than.
Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton made one other game-winning shot within the playoffs.
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Besides this time, it was on the game’s largest stage with the game’s brightest lights: the NBA Finals.
Haliburton and the Pacers shocked the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, stealing Recreation 1, 111-110.
The league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder have been up by as many as 15 factors within the fourth quarter.
Then the Pacers did what they’ve accomplished all postseason lengthy.
It’s the fifth time they’ve come again from being down 15, which is probably the most such comebacks in a single postseason for the reason that play-by-play period started in 1997.
Indiana is 5-3 after they go down by 15 or extra this postseason.
Nevertheless, probably the most beautiful stat about their playoff heroics is that this.
Groups within the NBA Finals that trailed by 7+ factors with three minutes left within the sport (since 1997) have been 0-122.
After tonight?
1-122.
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After the sport, the ESPN cameras caught Haliburton and Pascal Siakam already waiting for Recreation 2.
“Hell yeah, we did our job,” Haliburton instructed Siakam.
“Let’s get grasping man. We obtained a lot to work on.”
“We ain’t even play effectively,” Siakam responded.
It’s unfathomable what Haliburton and this workforce have accomplished within the final two months.
They don’t die.
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They don’t give up.
And Haliburton particularly has transcended into an entire completely different stage.
Since 1997, solely LeBron James has extra go-ahead or game-tying photographs within the postseason than the 25-year-old star.
James has eight, whereas Haliburton, and fellow Indiana star, Reggie Miller, are each tied for second with 5.
4 of these Haliburton photographs have come within the final two months.
It is his world, and we’re all simply dwelling in it.
Together with the Thunder, no less than for one night time.